Interim Leader, Neurological Care Centre

We are looking for an experienced senior leader with a proven track record of building and developing high-performing teams. If you're ready to make your mark on an established neurological rehabilitation and complex care service, apply now to join the team at St. Neots Neurological Centre. This is a 6-month interim position, created to provide focused leadership during a period of organisational development and to deliver a defined programme of project-based improvement work.

You will be responsible for stabilising operational performance, driving quality improvements, and ensuring the successful delivery of key strategic projects that strengthen the service for the long term. You will be leading and managing the full clinical and operational teams, ensuring excellent care is delivered and maintained, and ensuring quality and financial targets are met. As the Interim Care Centre Director at St. Neots Neurological Centre, you will have overall leadership and management responsibility for the service, regulatory compliance, and the multidisciplinary team.

Main duties of the job:

• Provide interim leadership for 6 months to drive organisational development and project-based improvements within the neurological rehabilitation service.
• Enhance performance, ensuring quality care and financial targets.
• Lead clinical and operational teams.
• Oversee a portfolio of improvement initiatives, such as service redesign and workforce optimisation.
• Engage effectively with local health authorities and prepare the service for a seamless leadership transition at the period's end.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading service development - ensuring services respond to the changing needs of stakeholders and reflect market trends and evidence-based practice.
• Delivering project-based improvements - overseeing a defined set of strategic projects, ensuring milestones are met within the 6-month timeframe.
• Ensuring regulatory, quality and financial targets are met.
• Leading the senior management team - developing local strategy, ensuring adherence to objectives, quality improvement plans and business plans.
• Promoting and enhancing the hospital's reputation for specialist care and service excellence.
• Fulfilling the role of Registered Manager as per CQC expectations.
• Engaging with Integrated Care Boards and Local Authorities to support service development and commercial opportunities.
• Preparing for transition - ensuring robust processes, documentation, and governance are in place for a seamless handover at the end of the interim period.

To be successful as the Interim Care Centre Director you will:

• Have an excellent track record in a healthcare or social care management role (essential).
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of neurological services.
• Bring a clear emphasis on performance, delivery, budget control and business development.
• Show a credible, inclusive and supportive leadership style with the ability to implement change at pace.
• Possess strong knowledge of clinical and non-clinical operational activities within a health or care organisation.
• Have working knowledge of neurological provision and the ability to apply this to service improvement.

What You'll Get:

• Competitive annual salary.
• The equivalent of 33 days annual leave (including bank holidays) - plus your birthday off and the option to buy additional annual leave.
• Career development and training to help you achieve your professional goals.
• Access to our Rewards & Benefits platform Ely-Vate; Your one-stop destination for everyday savings, exclusive benefits, and wellbeing hub!
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Access to Blue Light Card, which provides a range of exclusive offers and discounts.
• Life Assurance, for added peace of mind.
• Stream - instant access to earned wages when you need it, plus access to save, directly from your wages, alongside financial wellbeing support.
• 24/7 GP service and second medical opinion, to ensure you are the best you can be.
• Enhanced Maternity Package, so you can truly enjoy this special time.
• Pension contribution, to help secure your future.
• Free meals and onsite free parking.

About your next employer:

Elysium Healthcare has over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 80 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move. Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.

Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person's individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.

Qualifications:

Successful candidates will have an outstanding track record in healthcare or social care management roles and a deep understanding of neurological services. They must emphasise performance, delivery, budget control, and business development while displaying credible and inclusive leadership to implement change rapidly. Strong knowledge of clinical and non-clinical operations within a health or care organisation is vital. A working knowledge of neurological provision and its application in service improvement is essential.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Depending on experience, salary expectations will be discussed at interview stage.